Underwear



June 2, 1931.

R FREE-ID,

UN DERWEAR Filed Oct. 23. 1929 2 Sheets-Sheet l R. FREED June 2, 1931.

UNDERWEAR Filed 001;. 23, 1929- Sheets-Sheet 2 3nventol fl 0 55/??552 Gttorneg Patented June 2, 1931 UNITED STATES ROSE FREED, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA UNDERWEAR Application filed October 23, 1929. Serial No. 401,861.

My invention relates to underwear for women and misses, and the garment is of the combination or convertible type that is adapted for use either as a skirt, or as a combined skirt and pair of bloomers, and when employed or worn as the latter garment, a sanitary napkin may be employed or worn for sanitary, personal, use.

The garment is of the slip-over type, that is, it is slipped over the head of the wearer when dressing, or it may with equal facility be stepped into, or stepped out of, when desirable.

The garment includes a semi-divided skirt, that is, a skirt having a divided front portion, and a shield-panel or skirt-panel, to close over the divided front portion of the skirt; and also a detachable and removable bloomer-panel that is attached to the skirt when the garment is to be used as a combined skirt and pair of bloomers. In addition, a sanitary pad may be supported in place by the bloomer-panel, when required.

The various parts of the garment are combined and arranged in such manner as to insure convenience and facility in the conversion of the garment for different uses, and to assure comfort to the wearer at all times.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one complete example of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parts are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have thus far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the gar ment showing it in use as combined skirt and bloomer, parts being illustrated by dotted lines.

Figure 2 is an enlarged view of the garment, flattened out, and showing the parts in dotted lines that are otherwise invisible.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the removable bloon1er-panel, detached.

Figure 4 is a flat View of the garment as used for a skirt.

Figure 5 is a view of part of the skirt with the skirt-panel removed and part of the divided-front broken away for convenience of illustration.

The skirt ,1 is fashioned'in various sizes, of course in suitable materials and different colors, and is preferably shirred at its open top and provided Withan elastic band indicated by dotted lines, as 2 in Figures 2 and 4, but other means may be employed if desired to support the skirt.

At its front portion the skirt is divided or out out at the center, from the bottom edge, up, a suitable distance, and the opposed free edges 3 and 4 of thefront-divided skirt fall inwardly and around the legs of the wearer. This arrangement of the skirt provides for the leg portions of the bloomers when the skirt is worn or converted for that use. Garter supports may be attached to'these leg portions of the skirt for supporting hosiery, and at the same time for holding the bloomer-leg in position around the front portion of the leg.

the skirt, a central, downwardly projecting tab 5 is fashioned, and at opposite sides of the tab, curved notches 6, 6, are cut out of the skirt in order that the top edge of the At the upper edge of the divided-frontof on the upper edge of the divided-front adjacent the notches 6, 6, are secured heads 7 that form members of a snap fastening, and these heads are adapted to co-act with complementary socket-heads 8 that are secured along one edge of the detachable and remov able bloomer-panel 9. This bloomer panel as seen in Figure 3 is fashioned with two parallel straight edges, and laterally, curved portions, or side edges that bulge outwardly, while near the straight edges these lateral edges curve inwardly, to adapt the panel for use as in Figure 1. In Figure 1 the bloomer panel is indicated aspassing downwardly from the front, under, and up to the rear, and it is attached along itsstraight edges at both front and rear.

This bloomer-panel 9, when used, converts the garment into a combination skirt and bloomer, and it'will be apparent that when desired, this panel may be constructed and adapted forsanitary purposes and special 7 the skirt or to the braid on the skirt by means of the complementary socket-heads 12 that co-act with the snap heads 11'. The socketheads 12 are attached along, one; of the straight edges of the panel and atthe side of the panel opposite to, that to which; the socket heads 8 are, attached,

It will be apparent thatvby, connecting or it":astening the narrowed front of thebloomer panel outside of theskirt, but under the skirtpanel, the wearer may with greatest convenience, draw the panel throughthefront opening of the skirt and then quickly fasten the front'edge of the bloomerv panel to the skirt. The fastenings of the bloomer panel and, the skirt are snappedv together by-pressing inwardly against thev abdomen of the wearer, which affords the resistance required in snapping the fasteners together.

lVhile I have-shown the Well known type ofsnap-fasteners, or glove fasteners for securing the bloomer-panel in place, it will beunderstood that other detachable fastening means may be employed for joining thepanel with the skirt when desired.

The divided-front part of the skirt is. covered by the use of; a panel fashioned in;

suitable shape, and preferably attached permanently to the skirt to form a skirt-panel;

Across its upper straight edge, t-he panel is,

stitched at 14:, or it may be otherwise attached to the skirt to form a part thereof and, cover the open-front or divided-front of the skirt, and as seen inFigure l the garmentis fash ioned as a complete and usual type of skirt.

From the above description taken in connection with mydrawings it will be apparent that I have provided a garment that embodies simplicity and comfort, and one; which readily conforms to the-shape of the figure-of the wearer; the parts-of the garment-are so combined and arranged that they may with, facility be laundered; and it is obvious that the parts may be interchanged with con-1 venlence 1n convert ng the. garment for its;

varioususes. I, r I

f Having thus fully describedrny invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is} The combination with a skirt havinga divided front anda suspended; skirt panel; attached to the skirtabove; said divided;

front, of a removable bloomer panel, de-

tachable means for fastening the rear end of the bloomer-panel at the inside of the skirt, and means for detachably fastening the front end of the bloomer-panel to the front outside of the skirt beneath the skirt panel.

ROSE FREED. 

